Huntsville gazette., 1887-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

18th the distillery of Dorset & Wulftang,
IN Covlngton, KY, was burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000. One man, Ben
Rucer, was fatally injured.
The British ship Eliza A. Kennev, Cap
tain Lawrence from Philadelphia via
New York for Bremen, has been aban-
doned at sea in sinking condition. The
crew were saved.
STEAMERS arriving at New York and
other Atlantic ports report passing large
I. rrs .Ds IS q tebergs And immen3e fields
s.a ice, nickaaxfana suUi1 surttsr sourr
than usual.
AT one O'clock on the morning Of the
18th John Doty was crossing the Polk
street viasuct in Chicago, when he was
assaulted by two men, who struck him on
the head with club knocking him down.
After ritiing his pockets the thugs fled,
leaving no clew to their identity. Doty
was conveyed to the County Hospital,
where it was found that his skull was
fractured.
DR.. RANDALL, a quack physician of
rather unsavory reputation, was shot and
instantly killed in the courtroom at Hast
ings, Neb., on the 10Th, by an unknown
man, while undergoing preliminary ex-
animation on charge Of criminal assault
on girl eleven years of age.
A GREAT deal OF uncertainty exist as
to the actual number of lives lost in the
recent Buffalo holocaust. It is known
that nine are dead and about forty in
jured, and it is feared that the clearing
away of the debris will reveal the re
mains of several more victims.
Mrs. JAMES BkowN-PoTTER is said to
have secured very strong cast to sup
port her in her coming engagement at the
Haymarket Theater, London. as
ANDREAs HoFER, great grandson of
the TyrOle5e patriot of that name, is
about to make his debut in Berlin thea
ter in drama written by himself on the
theme of his ancestor.
THE Prince of Wales left London on the
18th for Berlin to attend the festivities
consequent upon the celebration Of the
ninetieth birthday of the Emperor Will
lam.
LORD LoNsDALE's recent theatrical vent
ures have so drawn upon his resources as
to impel him to sell at auction the cele-
brated collection of pictures and porce-
lains at Lowther Castle
MAJOR d. n. BUSH, Paymaster u. s. A.,
is reported to have been robbed Of $500
at Antelope Springs, wy T., by a cowboy
named Charles Parker, who escaped on
horseback with his booty under fire Of the
Major and his escort. t SkEE
TIE President has pardoned Dennis Kel-
ley, of Maine, convicted Of manslaughter,
and George Dabner, OF Wisconsin, con-
victed of pension frauds They have both
served their sentences, but this act re-
stores their citize nship.
| SECOND LIEUTENANT j. II. j. WILCOX,
of the Seventh cavalry, was arrested in
St. Louis on the 18th on a charge of being
absent without leave, and of duplicating
his pay accounts. He has been sent to
Fort Smelling, Mimi, for trial.
MISS MARIE ENGLE. of Chicago, made a
brilliant debut at Covent Garden Thea
ter, London, on the evening of the 18th, in
Martha" ," The Princess of Wales and
| numerous visiting Americans were among
the audience.
THE Treasury Department has directed
| that the issue of one and two dollar silver
! certificates be resumed at the New York,
| Philadelphia AMI Boston sub-treasuries.
A DAsTARDLY attempt was made by an
| incendiary in Buffalo, n. Y, on the 18th,
to set fire to tenement occupied by about
dozen families. The fire, started in tho
basement, in a coal bin, was discovered
by some children, who extinguished it.
JOHN j. HoELzEL is under arres in New
York on charge of having tried to poison
his uncle in Wisconsin.
TIE National Fish Commission are to
make an efforS to re-stock the American
coast waters with halibut.A
CHRISTIAN AK, of the firm of Gail d Az
tobacco manufacturers, died on the 3oth
at his home in Baltimore, Md, aged sixty
four years.
HY gunpowier explosion IN the hous
of man named Foster, in the Indian
Territory, on the Goth, two of his children
were killed and himself and wife were se-
| riously hurt.
e. A. PERRY cables to the Boston Herald
that precedence in the British Commons
is definitely settled in favor OF the CO.
ercion bill over the new Land bill.
PLYMOUTH pulpit was occupied on the
Goth by Rev. J. W. Malcolm, Of the Seventh
Avenue Congre gational Church, Brook
lyn. DR.. Abbott who had arranged to
| preach, was too i'll to perform that duty
OBJECTIONS are being made to the plans
for reconstruction of the old st. Louis
post-of1i &c, it being regarded as a mistake
| to turn it simply into u warehouse, when
more Office room is nee led for federal Of
| ficials.
TEE season of festivities in celebration
| of the Emperor Williams ninetieth birth
day began in Berlin on the 21st. The city
was in gala attire, a1d the entire popu-
| lace seemed bent on adding eclat to the
| occasion.
FIRE at Chautauqua, N ", on the 21st,
DESTROYED between sixty and seventy cot
| tages. entailing total loss OF about lCU,
| 000
| Pn1LLlP1NA NUTH, of New York, bride
of two weeks, committed suicide on the
T! 21st.
THz government police in Ireland have
killed another mooniigEter.
| New suits for over s250,0O] have been
filed at Chicago against Senator Sabin, OF
Minnesota.
SOME of the German papers are advocat-
| ing the disfranchisemen of Alsace-Lor-
raine.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, of Toronto, has
written an appeal to Lord Randolph
| Churchill on behalf of the Irish
| DIR. SowEEs of Washington, says the
President is not Liable to live through MS
! term unless he takes more exercise.
THE Pope's representative to the EN-
perorss birthday festivities at Berlin IS
| highly pleased with his rece ption.
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